Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and he. I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 3: So after a political article reports that Trump told his
Speaker 3: inner circle and members of his cabinet that Musk will
Speaker 3: be stepping back, saying quote, the President is pleased with
Speaker 3: Elon Musk, but the decision comes as the tech mogul
Speaker 3: increasingly looks like a political liability. Well, the White House
Speaker 3: wasted no time in responding, the Press secretary posting this quote.
Speaker 2: This scoop is garbage.
Speaker 3: Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that
Speaker 3: Elon will depart from public service as a special government
Speaker 3: employee when his incredible work at DOGE is complete, to
Speaker 3: which must commented this quote. Yeah, fake news.
Speaker 4: This is one of the times where the claim of
Speaker 4: fake news is completely fake news.
Speaker 2: It's fake news.
Speaker 4: Do I think the behind the scenes Trump is thinking
Speaker 4: a Elon's a little over His keys are doing me
Speaker 4: more harm than good.
Speaker 2: I can believe that.
Speaker 4: But the Elon is being pushed out or fired or whatever,
Speaker 4: as they reported all day long yesterday on MSNBC.
Speaker 2: Now it's one hundred and thirty day deal by law.
Speaker 4: He's talked openly about the date that he's leaving, and
Speaker 4: he's still planning on leaving on that day.
Speaker 2: The end.
Speaker 1: That's the end of the whole story. Well, and as
Speaker 1: Trump said, he's got big companies to run. This was
Speaker 1: not going to be forever.
Speaker 4: But it was presented as you know, a rift and
Speaker 4: a breakdown and Elon getting his punishment after the Supreme
Speaker 4: Court justice in Wisconsin that he boosted lost and blah blahs.
Speaker 4: If you enjoy that kind of soap opera crap, good
Speaker 4: for you. Knock yourself out. Since we're talking about Elon,
Speaker 4: here's AOC being asked if she still has her tesla, Tarson, do.
Speaker 2: You still have your tesla? I was just wonder if
Speaker 2: you still have your tesla?
Speaker 5: Your security viasons on hot?
Speaker 2: I'm not hot any what for for security reasons? I'm
Speaker 2: a hobbit? Is that what she's said?
Speaker 1: Yes, she disguises herself as a denizen of the shire
Speaker 1: when she leaves the Capitol to go home at night.
Speaker 4: I couldn't understand her, but it makes sense that you can't,
Speaker 4: especially if you're AOC or like a lightning rod, you
Speaker 4: can't go around telling people what kind.
Speaker 2: Of car you have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's just silly, that's kind of funny question.
Speaker 1: But uh so, okay, that's fine. Oh exactly. I admit
Speaker 1: to a low level of chagrin because in our discussion
Speaker 1: of tariffs in the previous hours of the program, I
Speaker 1: we were missing a giant piece of information. In my defense,
Speaker 1: as a guy who reads, you know, a huge percentage
Speaker 1: of Wall Street Journal every day and then goes to
Speaker 1: the New York Times and all sorts of other news
Speaker 1: sources to get the various perspectives and figure out what
Speaker 1: our people are using. The key piece of information how
Speaker 1: these quote unquote reciprocal tariffs are being calculated. The Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal didn't have until it's like half an hour
Speaker 1: forty minutes before we brought it up, tipped off by
Speaker 1: listeners that what are being called reciprocal tariffs are a
Speaker 1: slightly complicated formula that they figure what teriff freight is
Speaker 1: necessary to balance bilateral trade between the US and each
Speaker 1: of our trading partners, which again is a weird and
Speaker 1: artificial goal in my mind. You got some small poor country,
Speaker 1: but every country factoring.
Speaker 2: Practically every country's poor compared to US. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to buy more from them than we
Speaker 1: sell to them, and that's fine.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's uh.
Speaker 1: The point remains, though, that we need to restructure tariffs
Speaker 1: and trades in a way trade that's more fundamentally fair
Speaker 1: to American workers. Anyway, there are plenty to be said
Speaker 1: in the days to come as this all shakes out.
Speaker 4: We didn't get one, uh somebody complaining about our boring
Speaker 4: teriff talking how you don't like it, and good for
Speaker 4: you if you have no financial investment in the world
Speaker 4: at all and don't care about this, because this is huge.
Speaker 4: This is really huge. I mean, if it goes the
Speaker 4: way the detractors say it's gonna go, this could be
Speaker 4: like change your retirement sort of stuff. Oh yeah, So
Speaker 4: I think it's plenty worth talking about. I am amazed
Speaker 4: that one guy can set this off.
Speaker 2: One guy.
Speaker 4: Ran Paul tweeted about this and then spoke about it
Speaker 4: last night on the floor of the Senate. He said,
Speaker 4: I'm about to take the Senate floor to speak out
Speaker 4: against tariffs and stand up for the principle of no
Speaker 4: taxation without representation. You don't want to miss this one.
Speaker 4: With just the idea of this is taxation on the
Speaker 4: American people. Tariff's at tax. You're gonna be paying for it.
Speaker 4: And one guy decided, I guess, you know, he was elected,
Speaker 4: so you have representation.
Speaker 1: But yeah, four Republicans in the Senate joined the Democrats
Speaker 1: in passing a law that condemned this and said it
Speaker 1: should be overturned or something.
Speaker 2: I didn't see the specifics, but it was the Randy
Speaker 2: Man and you're and Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1: Interestingly Man, and then you're two super moderate senator ladies
Speaker 1: Murkowski and Susan Collins.
Speaker 2: I think it was. Anyway, it'll never get through the House,
Speaker 2: but it's interesting.
Speaker 4: I wanted to get this on because I thought it
Speaker 4: was kind of interesting if I can find it, Oh,
Speaker 4: here it is just in terms of the who the
Speaker 4: biggest economies are, and the United States is the biggest
Speaker 4: economy in the world.
Speaker 2: There for a while it looked like China was going
Speaker 2: to pass us.
Speaker 4: Then not so much, and now there's a decent chance
Speaker 4: they never do because they've got so many things going
Speaker 4: the wrong way, demographics, business, everything else.
Speaker 1: But here are your top economies. You know, Sorry, just
Speaker 1: a quick interjection. Thomas Friedman in The New York Times.
Speaker 1: I think yesterday had another one of his China is
Speaker 1: way better at everything columns, just he sees so in
Speaker 1: love with them and they're innovation and how they're the
Speaker 1: future clearly, and okay, all right, tommy boy.
Speaker 4: And the point has been made before that since China
Speaker 4: has an India, if you've got four times the population
Speaker 4: of the United States, your workers can be a quarter
Speaker 4: as productive and you have as a big an economy.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just math of it, the advantage of
Speaker 4: having a giant country. And so I came across this
Speaker 4: in the Economist that India is about to overtake Japan
Speaker 4: on the ranking of biggest economies. But some of these
Speaker 4: on here are kind of surprising. United States number one,
Speaker 4: China number two, then Japan and Germany not that bigger countries,
Speaker 4: I mean, compared to China and India in the United States,
Speaker 4: but their economies are really amazing, right.
Speaker 1: I hate to hear them mentioned in the same sentence
Speaker 1: together last time went poorly, I never forget.
Speaker 4: And then India, which if they ever get their act together,
Speaker 4: could you know, be a colossus. But they're they're going
Speaker 4: to move up the list to number four. That's Great Britain.
Speaker 4: All this talk about Old Europe, which I've engaged in.
Speaker 4: You know, their economies are still big. You got Germany,
Speaker 4: the United Kingdom, and France all in the top eight,
Speaker 4: which is.
Speaker 1: Why when the EU is looked at as a whole,
Speaker 1: they rival the US.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then it's Brazil, which doesn't get enough attention. Italy.
Speaker 4: Canada is the tenth largest economy in the world with
Speaker 4: their little population forty million people, right, yeah, roughly the
Speaker 4: same as California. Of course, if you break out California,
Speaker 4: we're like the fifth biggest economy in the world, would
Speaker 4: be bigger than most of these places we mentioned. Also, Russia,
Speaker 4: for all their problems, is the eleventh biggest economy in
Speaker 4: the world. Wow, freaking Mexico, which is a disaster of
Speaker 4: a country. It's just called Mexico. Generally, it's the twelfth
Speaker 4: biggest economy in the world. Yeah, even run by you know,
Speaker 4: Narco state. Does that include the cartel's economic output? I
Speaker 4: don't have any idea, but you know what that's that's
Speaker 4: a super interesting question. I mean, because the cartels buy
Speaker 4: things and sell things and pay wages that go into
Speaker 4: people's pockets that are in turn you know used to
Speaker 4: buy a car economy eat right, So I wonder how
Speaker 4: that works in economic measurement. I won't break down the
Speaker 4: numbers because I want to bore you to death, because
Speaker 4: reading lists from the Atlas are not, you know, the
Speaker 4: best radio, but the United States and China are so
Speaker 4: much The drop off from one and two to everybody
Speaker 4: else is a lot. But I was surprised that so
Speaker 4: much of old Europe still cranks it out and is
Speaker 4: in the top half dozen or so. And they're you know,
Speaker 4: the countries that are quite angry about this new tariff deal?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: Why how this shakes out as a great mystery? We'll
Speaker 1: all find out together, I suppose. I just hope it's
Speaker 1: not too chaotic.
Speaker 4: They won't take our meat or our lobsters. Right in Europe,
Speaker 4: our beautiful beef.
Speaker 2: Our beef is beautiful.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I think we should land on Normandy again over this
Speaker 2: right beautiful.
Speaker 1: So if you had Charlemagne the god mocking Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: on your Bengo card, Hey, now you're in luck. Why
Speaker 1: don't we play fifteen? Just for chuckles?
Speaker 2: Michael?
Speaker 6: Maybe Democratic leaders in Congress, ain't it? What if we
Speaker 6: look outside of Washington to The Governor's Gavin Nusso from California.
Speaker 6: He's been getting active lately. What's his fight plan? We
Speaker 6: need to change the conversation. And that's why I'm launching
Speaker 6: a new podcasts and this is going to be anything
Speaker 6: but the ordinary politician podcasts. I don't believe you. Your
Speaker 6: body doesn't even believe the words.
Speaker 1: Your same is mocking Gavin's overactive hand motions as he speaks.
Speaker 1: That's funny, that's you know. Charlemagne the God is a
Speaker 1: New York based radio personality very popular among young ish
Speaker 1: black folks and others. Obviously, but the the fact that
Speaker 1: he and his constituency have that immediate reaction and the
Speaker 1: Daily Show audience laughed uproar, abrooriously at it, that says something.
Speaker 4: Has anybody ever won the presidency who sounded sounded and
Speaker 4: looked contrived?
Speaker 2: The people that win tend to seem like they're being themselves.
Speaker 4: Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton's.
Speaker 1: Even Biden, who's full of crap and senile. Yeah he
Speaker 1: ran his old scrant and Joe.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. The people.
Speaker 4: So it's amazing that so many people try to get
Speaker 4: that job by thinking about what their hand gestures are
Speaker 4: going to be or how to smile correctly.
Speaker 1: The people that win aren't doing that. You remember the
Speaker 1: other day we were watching Ron de Santis. He was
Speaker 1: talking about uh what, Oh, Actually it was a great
Speaker 1: stuff about how Florida has already reformed its universities and
Speaker 1: there's nobody being indoctrinated into Marxism and no loyalty oaths
Speaker 1: in Florida universities. And you commented, he looks twice as
Speaker 1: confident as he ever did during his presidential run. I
Speaker 1: think he got convinced that he had to be calculated
Speaker 1: and not Look, I'm a policy wonk in an attorney,
Speaker 1: but I'm real good at running stuff.
Speaker 2: Should have gone there. Oh the next I had meant
Speaker 2: to say this the other day.
Speaker 1: The next president of the United States might be DeSantis
Speaker 1: and not Ron. His wife, A Kutie is emerging emerging
Speaker 1: as a political juggernaut in Florida. I guess, super capable, charismatic,
Speaker 1: smart who knows first lady president.
Speaker 2: A woman president.
Speaker 1: Check the constitution says nothing about the Gonards.
Speaker 2: Really, really, that's surprising to me. We've got more on
Speaker 2: the waist there day.
Speaker 7: Robbie, twenty two year old Palestinian from City. Rabbi's family
Speaker 7: says he was killed by Hamas militants torture to death
Speaker 7: for publicly criticizing Hamas. Rubbi's brother, Hassan told CNN his
Speaker 7: brother was abducted from the streets of Gaza City by
Speaker 7: a group of Hamas militants. Six hours later, he was
Speaker 7: handed over barely alive. Rubbi's brother says his body was
Speaker 7: delivered with a message, this is the fate of everyone
Speaker 7: who disrespects al Casam brigades and speaks ill of them,
Speaker 7: referring to the armed wing of Hamas.
Speaker 1: There you have the story of a young man who
Speaker 1: spoke out against Tamas and was tortured to death in Gaza,
Speaker 1: and then students at Clem University safe and sound in
Speaker 1: New York, chanting about Intafada revolution having chained themselves to
Speaker 1: the gate.
Speaker 2: Leave them, I say, now you're chained to a gate.
Speaker 2: Good luck. Wait, you've got to cut our chains and
Speaker 2: drag us off and pretend to arrest us. No, I
Speaker 2: don't think I do. Yeah, we decided to just leave
Speaker 2: you there. That is so disgusting. Yes it is.
Speaker 1: And much as I would love to bash the youngsters
Speaker 1: for their stupidity, they were intentionally and systematically indoctrinated into
Speaker 1: a political philosophy by their government school educators.
Speaker 4: Boy, that's a very good point. For some reason, I
Speaker 4: was thinking, as you were talking, what if that was
Speaker 4: one of my kids. I don't even know if I
Speaker 4: could talk to them. But then what you said is true.
Speaker 4: Go ahead and you send them to college, and they
Speaker 4: every class they took told them this.
Speaker 2: So what are they supposed to think? Right?
Speaker 4: So I'd have to I guess I'd have to dedicate
Speaker 4: myself to deprogramming them.
Speaker 1: At risk of over making the point twenty eight place Michael.
Speaker 7: As his body is carried through the streets, the crowd
Speaker 7: erupts in chance, calling for Hamas to get out, his
Speaker 7: family now demanding justice and retribution. Rubbi was killed a
Speaker 7: week after he and thousands of other Palestinians took to
Speaker 7: the streets in Gaza's largest anti Hamas demonstration since the
Speaker 7: war began. Rubby had already scuffled with Hamas members a
Speaker 7: month earlier, his brother said and feared Hamas would kill him.
Speaker 7: They want to take me, they want to kill me,
Speaker 7: he said in this video.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they want from me. A week later,
Speaker 2: he was dead. Yeah.
Speaker 4: They drug him up to the house with a leisha
Speaker 4: around his neck, almost dead, and he died shortly thereafter,
Speaker 4: having been tortured, all his fingers cut off, you know,
Speaker 4: all the usual horrible, horrible things. Now, So these idiot,
Speaker 4: the most privileged people on earth, Columbia college kids who've
Speaker 4: chained themselves to something there and are chanting into fought
Speaker 4: a revolution, what would there be their life logic on it?
Speaker 4: Is it like the black face a white supremacy thing
Speaker 4: or yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to ask them so in your
Speaker 1: bizarro so stupidly oversimplified worldview, As I've said before, if
Speaker 1: my dog is spoused that I would kick him. That
Speaker 1: the person with more power is always the evildoer, and
Speaker 1: the person with less power is always the noble, fine person.
Speaker 1: How about Hamas and that poor young man who had
Speaker 1: the power there all right, now, lecture me about well,
Speaker 1: they would say, no, he is with the Zionists in effect,
Speaker 1: so he's become the oppressor and therefore cutting off all
Speaker 1: of his fingers was proper. And you're paying eighty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year for that. It's sickening, it's horrifying. I
Speaker 1: can't believe I am blaming myself. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but I can't believe we let it get that far.
Speaker 1: The perversion in our education systems shocking. Man.
Speaker 4: You can be as anti Israel as you want, you
Speaker 4: can't justify.
Speaker 1: Hamas they do, though you're right by any means necessary.
Speaker 1: There is only one solution into fad a revolution.
Speaker 4: And the problem with this story obviously, and if you've
Speaker 4: spent any time on it ever in your life, you
Speaker 4: know this. But I'm still making my way through Thirteen Days.
Speaker 4: The Lawrence write book about the Middle East. Piece talks
Speaker 4: with Carterbegen and and he does a lot of history
Speaker 4: lessons in between the negotiations going way back, and the
Speaker 4: back and forth between Palestinians murdering innocent Israelis and then
Speaker 4: Israeli's wiping out Palestinians when Moshi Diane came on the scene,
Speaker 4: and I mean, it's it's ugly. And then so each
Speaker 4: side has got such a good story they can point
Speaker 4: to to justify anything, right, and it's a race to
Speaker 4: the bottom.
Speaker 1: Well, and honestly, it would be more honest and almost
Speaker 1: more informative if you refer to them as the Muslims
Speaker 1: and the Jews because it's not the town they're from
Speaker 1: that makes them oppose each other one side in particular.
Speaker 2: Right, that's complicated, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8: Well, guys, the deadline for TikTok to find a US
Speaker 8: owner is almost here, and Amazon just made a last
Speaker 8: minute offer to buy the app. You know you're rich
Speaker 8: when you can make a two hundred billion dollar impulse
Speaker 8: back and.
Speaker 2: Like a two am. Jeff Bezos is like, and that's
Speaker 2: just you undred million dollar.
Speaker 8: Company to the car and let me get this waffle
Speaker 8: maker tip. Right now, Amazon's wondering if they should buy
Speaker 8: a TikTok or just steal it off someone's front.
Speaker 2: Porsch. That's pretty funny. That's good stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh, Bezos is the kind of guy that
Speaker 4: could come in and say, you know what, but I
Speaker 4: could make something out of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, their algorithms are better, but I know some smart folks.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and buy it. Yeah, it's not going
Speaker 1: to go dark, I don't think anyway. Ah blurr afropool
Speaker 1: of nothing except it's kind of interesting and cool. Our
Speaker 1: own Katie Green can set up This report from Katie
Speaker 1: Nielsen of the NBC affiliate in the Bay Area.
Speaker 9: Yeah, this next story is out of my hometown, Castor
Speaker 9: Valley in the Bay Area, and it's about a comic
Speaker 9: book shop that's been in town for thirty five years.
Speaker 9: And I mean I remember buying cart like baseball cards
Speaker 9: and Pokemon cards there as a kid.
Speaker 2: And unfortunately, these two.
Speaker 9: Jack holes decided to smash the window and rob the
Speaker 9: place at the beginning of last month, and justice has
Speaker 9: been served. Michael pet twenty four.
Speaker 5: Crush Comics store manager Cole Sanders and owner Josh Hunter
Speaker 5: never thought they'd find themselves as real life comic book vigilantes,
Speaker 5: but that's exactly what happened. After the shop was burglarized
Speaker 5: in the early morning hours of March twenty second, Bler
Speaker 5: cleared the wall where the most valuable comic books were displayed.
Speaker 5: Josh thought they were gone for good until one of
Speaker 5: his employees spotted a very specific comic book for sale
Speaker 5: on eBay less than twelve hours after the birthary.
Speaker 2: When I saw that on eBay, I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: just going to buy that and see what happens. And
Speaker 2: we got the guy's name and address and everything.
Speaker 5: The very next day, the Alameda County Sheriff's Department served
Speaker 5: a search warrant at the home of twenty nine year
Speaker 5: old Narula Amuri of Livermore, where they say they found
Speaker 5: tens of thousands of dollars of comic books, collectibles, and
Speaker 5: lego sets, the majority of which were returned to their
Speaker 5: respective stores.
Speaker 1: Do we know about anything about that very special comic?
Speaker 1: Was it a very rare merry Worth in which he
Speaker 1: counsels a friend to commit suicide?
Speaker 9: I think it was like a custom cover that he spotted.
Speaker 9: But what had happened is this guy who's been robbing,
Speaker 9: who robbed the Crush Comics, has robbed multiple other comic
Speaker 9: stores and toy stores throughout.
Speaker 2: The East Bay scumbag, And so.
Speaker 9: Crush Comics created a text thread with other store owners
Speaker 9: and they were going to all these different eBay sites,
Speaker 9: and there was actually an Instagram developed for buying legos
Speaker 9: that had all been stolen. And all of these comic
Speaker 9: book and toy store owners banned together and end up
Speaker 9: getting all the information on this guy, and Alameda County
Speaker 9: goes and busts them.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I noticed that it was Alameda's Gang Suppression Unit
Speaker 1: and street crimes unit that was in on the bus.
Speaker 2: So they're getting serious about that.
Speaker 1: And now Alameda County has a prosecutor prosecutes crimes, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and gotten rid of the communist Pamela Price.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And one other note about the robber is he wore
Speaker 9: those old timey nose glasses, the glasses with the fake
Speaker 9: nose on him. And Crush Comics released that they had
Speaker 9: caught him by all taking pictures with the stolen merchandise,
Speaker 9: and they all had the nose glasses on.
Speaker 2: Yat.
Speaker 9: They had a great sense of humor about it, but
Speaker 9: it was nice to see them get everything back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the problem like them, when people steal rare
Speaker 4: art and stuff like.
Speaker 2: That, what are you going to do with it?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: I mean it's you know, every there's only people know
Speaker 4: where it came from. You could if if you could
Speaker 4: steal the Hope Diamond today, which I.
Speaker 2: Saw recently, Where did I see it? Washington? Dan? Right,
Speaker 2: must be there's a Sodian news by the way, but later.
Speaker 4: Anyway, you could steal the Hope Diamond today, what are
Speaker 4: you going to do with it? It's worthless unless you
Speaker 4: can somehow back channel and.
Speaker 1: Arab she yes, precisely, or a Russian oligarchy.
Speaker 2: I don't have a way to do that.
Speaker 1: No, No, I would just you know, put it under
Speaker 1: my pillow, post it on the Facebook or something. Hey,
Speaker 1: looking for an Arab chic or Russian oligarch. I got
Speaker 1: something you might want to buy. You meet some really
Speaker 1: nice FBI agents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: That's really like kind of an Ozark sort of conundrum,
Speaker 4: because practically anybody you try to deal with is going
Speaker 4: to think, why would I pay you anything for this?
Speaker 2: Well, I know you have it, I'm gonna come kill
Speaker 2: you and take it. Right.
Speaker 1: It's the perfect example, though, of a business you work
Speaker 1: your way up in. Anybody who would do that knows
Speaker 1: the answer to the question already because they've been selling
Speaker 1: illicit goods to shady characters around the globe.
Speaker 4: But this sort of person apparently did not know that.
Speaker 4: If they got this comic book that's very unique, you
Speaker 4: can't just put it on eBay.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah though, Yeah, a whole and moron.
Speaker 4: You kind of hate people like that, destroying what other
Speaker 4: people have worked so.
Speaker 2: Hard to create and build.
Speaker 1: It's just, oh, is it time for a reset of
Speaker 1: my buddy Drew's a long stated principle.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a good one due career law enforcement guy.
Speaker 1: If you are contemplating a life of crime, that is
Speaker 1: proof that you're too stupid to pull off a life
Speaker 1: of crime with practically no exceptions.
Speaker 2: Correct. He tells funny stories of early in his career,
Speaker 2: just the stupid people he would bust, and they would think,
Speaker 2: how did you think you were going to get it?
Speaker 2: This was going to be successful. You're so stupid. But
Speaker 2: that's how he arrived at the principle.
Speaker 4: Right, the big the smaller crimes are all I just
Speaker 4: need twenty five bucks for meth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're bigger.
Speaker 4: Like you know you're gonna rob a bank? Can you
Speaker 4: get ten that? What are you gonna do with ten
Speaker 4: thousand dollars? You're you gonna retire?
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: They haven't thought it out. Getting back to the principle, right, right,
Speaker 1: too stupid stupid should hurt, and it often does. It's
Speaker 1: just when it hurts other people that it's awful. Not
Speaker 1: to get overly serious. But I grew up reading a
Speaker 1: columnist by the name of Mike Royko in the Chicago
Speaker 1: Tribune and brilliant guy, wonderful writer, led a really interesting life,
Speaker 1: fought in world War two. It just worked all sorts
Speaker 1: of jobs. He was a street reporter and a guy
Speaker 1: stuck a gun in his face and robbed him at
Speaker 1: gunpoint one day on the streets of Chicago. And the
Speaker 1: point of the column was that the one thought that
Speaker 1: kept running through his mind was that this worthless moron
Speaker 1: was going to end his life. Everything he'd done and
Speaker 1: endured and lived through and accomplished, it was all going
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: Ended by just a jack hole.
Speaker 1: To a quote her friend Katie here, And that was
Speaker 1: the part that made him so mad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can imagine that now as a parent, just
Speaker 4: like my kids are going to have the life they're
Speaker 4: going to have without a dad.
Speaker 2: For whatever you're about to.
Speaker 4: Get, Yeah, which ain't worth nothing, right, Hugh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that's a very very serious thing, and perhaps we
Speaker 1: will move on now.
Speaker 2: So I just saw this up on the TV.
Speaker 4: Have you seen this the female fencer who took a
Speaker 4: knee in her fencing match because she was gonna have
Speaker 4: to fence a dude no, And she said, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to compete against a man.
Speaker 2: Good for you.
Speaker 4: You've seen that, Katie. So do you have any idea
Speaker 4: what the transfencer said to the girl because she walks.
Speaker 4: He walks up to her and has quite a converse,
Speaker 4: but I haven't seen what the conversation was.
Speaker 9: Well, so what happened is the female fencer told the
Speaker 9: I don't know if they're called referees, but the ref
Speaker 9: standing in between the two of them, that she was
Speaker 9: not going to fence this guy. And she took a
Speaker 9: knee and the ref couldn't understand what she said and
Speaker 9: he walked off. So the trans fencer went over to
Speaker 9: her to be like, hey, what's going on, and she said, listen,
Speaker 9: I love you, but you're a guy, and I'm not
Speaker 9: going to fence you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's kind of that's more on principle because
Speaker 4: somebody's I don't know that much about fencing, but I
Speaker 4: don't think you get hurt fencing to you.
Speaker 1: Oh you can. I don't think it happens a ton.
Speaker 1: That's why they have all that.
Speaker 4: But like, I can't imagine anybody boxes somebody or some
Speaker 4: of these other physical sports or even basketball.
Speaker 1: I see your point where you're up against a guy.
Speaker 1: We need more of this, much much more of this,
Speaker 1: and the rioting.
Speaker 4: Stadn't have the whole gymnasium isn't going nuts over it.
Speaker 2: That's what I don't get right.
Speaker 1: They might not be aware or they're afraid to speak
Speaker 1: out because remember last major poll it was seventy nine eighteen. God,
Speaker 1: if you're in against dudes competing against girls calling themselves girls.
Speaker 2: I was at a boys volleyball game last night.
Speaker 4: But if I'm at a girl's volleyball game and they
Speaker 4: got a dude on the team, feel free to stand
Speaker 4: up and say there's a dude on the girls team
Speaker 4: because eighty percent of the people in that room, and
Speaker 4: depending on where you live, it might be one hundred
Speaker 4: percent of the people.
Speaker 2: In that room agree with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's a child, that's a little different situation,
Speaker 1: but you.
Speaker 2: Still can't let it go on. So I don't know
Speaker 2: what you what you should do, o, Katie.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So back to the fencing situation. The referee dealt
Speaker 9: the woman a black card, which represents the most severe
Speaker 9: penalty you can receive in the sport. She was then
Speaker 9: escorted out of the event and made to sign a
Speaker 9: document acknowledging her penalty.
Speaker 2: Wow, well, you can't make me sign a goddamn thing.
Speaker 2: But that's when you take out your little sword. And
Speaker 2: I still got it on me. Now you're gonna have
Speaker 2: a hole in you.
Speaker 1: You have one as eye when I'm done with it, boy, barbrick,
Speaker 1: or you could protest in a dignified fashion the injustice
Speaker 1: of it all.
Speaker 2: You could take it on eyes. Well you make a point,
Speaker 2: barb arc. Well, good for her. They gave her the
Speaker 2: old black card.
Speaker 1: Eh yeah, dare you USA fencing or whatever.
Speaker 2: What I know about fencing couldn't fill a thimble, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you that.
Speaker 1: But well, good for her, though, as I started to say,
Speaker 1: there needs to be way more of that. Ladies, girls
Speaker 1: do the brave thing if you can. And then parents
Speaker 1: who know what's right, don't sit there silent because you're
Speaker 1: afraid of the judgment of your wack of doodal progressive peers.
Speaker 1: That's the greatest badge of honor you could wear is
Speaker 1: that they were mad at you. So these are adults
Speaker 1: because they're college age. But this Sullivan person fenced for
Speaker 1: the men's team in college last season before switching to
Speaker 1: the women's team this season. You know what, We've got
Speaker 1: a couple of great emails about this topic, bencing. No
Speaker 1: women in you keep that one hand up, guys in. Girls, Well, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you hop back and forth. Yes, those great emails about
Speaker 1: dudes whooping up on girls that progressives allow coming up next.
Speaker 4: You're gonna feel it, Gail, and I don't want you
Speaker 4: to wear that dress is just the color of blood.
Speaker 2: Okay, we don't want any blood, Gail. The g forces
Speaker 2: that are going to be on you, you're gonna feel
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna die, but you're not going to die.
Speaker 2: You were scaring them, Gail.
Speaker 1: Hydrogen was being poured into the ship and the Hindenburg
Speaker 1: got burned with hydrogen, and I'm thinking that's frightening.
Speaker 2: Girl. Between the time you leave your bed and get
Speaker 2: to the ship and go up in the air and
Speaker 2: then come back down and deal with the press a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 4: There are no bathroom facilities, so they're gonna give you diapers.
Speaker 1: What's that's William Shatner talking to Gail King about her
Speaker 1: upcoming trip on the Blue Origin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rocket ship. It's Gail King? Who are? Who are?
Speaker 2: It's a bunch of gals, right, yeah, Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 4: No, Bezos's wife, I think Bezos' wife.
Speaker 2: And then another blazed blonde bad bush about it. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's Bill Shatner.
Speaker 1: A still with us clearly b still sharp and funny
Speaker 1: as hell. I love Bill Shatner, I really do, although
Speaker 1: I CA this is so weird today.
Speaker 2: In the midst of I don't know why. So on
Speaker 2: my way to the.
Speaker 4: Bathroom, hit me with William Shatner's age. We just heard
Speaker 4: him sharp, funny, eighty four, ninety four, No, he's ninety four. No, wow,
Speaker 4: Biden s will be president if he were that sharp?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, ninety well maybe yeah. Anyway, where it was, Oh,
Speaker 1: I came to a realization about Star Trek that in
Speaker 1: all my years of being a Trek fan, that's the
Speaker 1: one in all my years, it had never.
Speaker 2: Occurred to me.
Speaker 1: Perhaps I will reveal it in the One More Thing
Speaker 1: podcast Trek Fans, I'm gonna blow your minds. So we
Speaker 1: were talking about the brave woman fencer who conceded a
Speaker 1: match she withdrew because it was a dude fencing her
Speaker 1: in women's fencing, and they gave her the most serious
Speaker 1: sanction in the sport, the black card.
Speaker 2: But she's stood up.
Speaker 1: For women's sports in a wonderful way, and I hope
Speaker 1: rewards flow in her direction. Got a couple of emails
Speaker 1: on the topic because of a discussion yesterday, This one
Speaker 1: from Adam Please for the Love of A and G
Speaker 1: mentioned this take. I played high school football with a
Speaker 1: dude whose dream was to be the Star warsquarterback. Sophomore year.
Speaker 1: He was outmanned by the eventual Star quarterback. The dude
Speaker 1: was a great teammate and an outstanding backup quarterback. He
Speaker 1: went on to become one of the best soccer players
Speaker 1: in college women's soccer. This took place in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands. A dude, the lynchpin of dudes in women's
Speaker 1: sports is the pervert sexual abuse claims. Without that narrative,
Speaker 1: the left doesn't have a victim card to play, and
Speaker 1: we're right back to the moral hurdle we already we
Speaker 1: jumped already of girls joining the boys wrestling team. The
Speaker 1: dude I played football with didn't want VIP access to
Speaker 1: the girls locker room.
Speaker 2: He wanted to feel important.
Speaker 1: That level of selfishness is still wrong and shouldn't be
Speaker 1: disguised by assumptions that are easily made.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's interesting, I'd never really thought of that take.
Speaker 4: You're so into being good at your sport, Okay, I'll
Speaker 4: get into a different category then.
Speaker 2: And you combine that who knows how much or in
Speaker 2: what way.
Speaker 1: With auto ginophilia, you look it up if you don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, or legitimate gender dysphoria or whatever,
Speaker 1: because I mean, if you have a legit, like adult
Speaker 1: gender dysphoria, you're And this was like virtually every single
Speaker 1: case of transgenderism, an adult male who'd felt like a
Speaker 1: girl his entire life.
Speaker 2: Adolescent girls didn't exist.
Speaker 1: The idea that no, I want to be a boy, now,
Speaker 1: this is it's an invention of progressive neo Marxist anyway,
Speaker 1: mostly and anyway, it's a it's a mental disorder, and
Speaker 1: I feel rare, and.
Speaker 4: It's twenty percent of the student body, right. But yeah,
Speaker 4: even if you are that legit sort of case, the
Speaker 4: idea that you would dominate women in sports and think
Speaker 4: it was fine is ludicrous.
Speaker 2: And then this.
Speaker 1: Rich The California Assembly members said sports are inherently unfairsome
Speaker 1: men should be allowed in women's sport's hilarious. Every sport
Speaker 1: has a set of rules to help ensure fairness and safety.
Speaker 2: For example, it would be unfair and definitely unsafety have
Speaker 2: its seventeen year old boys play football against twelve year olds.
Speaker 2: That's why they have a twelve and under league. Also,
Speaker 2: wouldn't be fun to watch or play that game. I
Speaker 2: don't get what enjoyment these guys get out of playing
Speaker 2: girls sports. I don't either. I don't either dominating them
Speaker 2: It's pathetic.
Speaker 5: And now final faults with Armstrong and getting engage.
Speaker 2: There's your hos for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get
Speaker 2: a final thought from everybody on the crew. Mike Climbs
Speaker 2: will lead us off just real quick.
Speaker 4: My wife just texts me that my Costco membership card
Speaker 4: has expired and glad you told me this.
Speaker 2: At the end of the show where I've been distracted.
Speaker 1: All morning, Katie Green ares theemed the Newswoman as a
Speaker 1: final thought, Katie.
Speaker 9: I am just really happy about the whole no phones
Speaker 9: in schools thing and also mortified at the fact that
Speaker 9: the students were trying to break into the things to
Speaker 9: get their phones out.
Speaker 2: It'd be quite an adjustment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but bringing happiness and joy to them, right, I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 2: I hate the alternative.
Speaker 4: Jack final thought, Yeah, I was thinking yesterday for me
Speaker 4: reason on that theme. I hope that somehow culturally staring
Speaker 4: at your phone becomes so uncool, like we decided so
Speaker 4: unhealthy and everything like that. It's like smoking cigarettes in
Speaker 4: an elevator or doing drugs or something like that, where
Speaker 4: it's just culturally uncool.
Speaker 2: I love that idea.
Speaker 1: I don't love our chances now, but I'm on your side.
Speaker 1: My final thought, I'm about to tweet a picture of
Speaker 1: myself in studio wearing a bald eagle head so good,
Speaker 1: putting my arm around Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Because why because Merca is Why because you got to
Speaker 2: make a living, and this is how you make a living.
Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 2: Oh, a cornicopia of delights. See you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and get you. Our message is clear. Our
Speaker 2: beaf is beauty and their's is weak. Are you sure?
Speaker 2: Says yes, that's not what I was told? Wow, Oh,
Speaker 2: Congressman Well.
Speaker 4: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty asked the same question of
Speaker 4: their listeners, and here's their response.
Speaker 2: I've still wondered, did he know that she wasn't European.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. What's the woman grabs who buy
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Speaker 2: Bye Bye, Armstrong and Getty.